Record Reviews (March '20): LAB / U.S. Girls / The Necks / Pet Crow / Wodwo / Stephen Malkmus / Dead Cosmonauts / Caribou 1 March 2020 L.A.B.P.D (Or, Band on the Hunt.) by Life Aquatic BandLife Aquatic Band - L.A.B.P.D (Or, Band on the Hunt)Sheffield's Life Aquatic Band…
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood 15 August 2019 Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is a perfectly fine 90-minute movie hidden inside an overlong mess that drags on for 159 minutes, which for…
Avengers: Endgame 1 May 2019 When Joe and Anthony Russo, directors of Avengers: Endgame, pleaded fans not to spoil the plot of the movie coming up to its release, they…
Live / stage review The Day After IWD, 9 March, Hatch 1 April 2019 On the night after International Women's Day, Hatch celebrated the occasion with an energetic line-up of female-fronted live goodness,…
Nubiyan Twist at Yellow Arch: Two room party for Now Then gig 26 March 2019 Afrobeat-reggae-jazz extravaganza Nubiyan Twist are launching their new album with a two room all-nighter for Now Then.The 10-piece…
If Beale Street Could Talk 18 March 2019 If Beale Street Could Talk is a colourful film about fading. Both in its examination of race and love, it shows how hope and longing are…
Nubiyan Twist Afrobeat-reggae-jazz extravaganza 1 March 2019 Leading up to the release of their new album, Jungle Run, we talked to Nick and Joe of Nubiyan Twist, a band that've been making waves nationwide with a unique sound that defies easy definition.
Live / stage review A Reyt Queer Do, 16 Feb, Theatre Deli 1 March 2019 Andro & Eve's drag king extravaganza, the chaotically-titled A Reyt Queer Do, is the kind of show that makes you forget about Brexit.…
Live / stage review Alienata, 23 Feb, Night Kitchen 1 March 2019 So it is here, a huge green door of The Night Kitchen, the location secret until two hours before the gig. Before I descend into the annals…
Burning 20 February 2019 "What you do isn't make yourself believe that there are tangerines there; you forget that the tangerines are not there," Hae-mi (Jong-seo…
Live / stage review Sybil & Proteus, 11 Jan 1 February 2019 If it wasn't for the music, it'd be like a church in there. At a secret location, with a DJ's pulpit and ethereal lights, Control have…
Live / stage review Heavy Lids, 12 Jan, The Harley 1 February 2019 Sheffield-based rock formation Heavy Lids hit The Harley last month to promote their new single, 'Ariel'. The band performed a relatively…
The House That Jack Built 1 January 2019 The House That Jack Built is a film about a serial killer that spans the 12-year career of its titular anti-hero (Matt Dillon), showing us…
Roundup: Our music writers look back on 2018 1 January 2019 As is now a Now Then tradition, we're sending 2018 on its merry way by asking our writers to tell us about their favourite releases of the…
Bearing 1 January 2019 Rosie Reed Hillman's Bearing plays like a series of quality home videos about a daughter and her mother - until it doesn't. The…
Interview: Life Aquatic Band: On experimentation and hunting down McCartney 1 January 2019 With their second EP, From Russell, With Love, released in November, the Life Aquatic Band have taken another step towards being one of the…
Live / stage review Lau, Abbeydale Picture House, 29 Nov 1 December 2018 The three members of Lau huddled together in the middle of the sizeable stage at the Abbeydale Picture House do not look like they have the…
Record Reviews (Nov '18): Prodigy / Roman Nose / R@ + More 1 November 2018 R@ - Neural EP by R@R@Neural EPNeural is a brief and entertaining journey into the sound of R@, a multifaceted producer from Leicester. It…